# Civil penalty for violation of federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011; generally

**Citation:** Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 37-2-128  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** Wyoming Legislature  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** Not stated

Where the commission has exercised authority under the provisions of the federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011, 49 U.S.C. § 60101, et seq., and amendments thereto, to regulate gas safety in the state of Wyoming, any person or persons as defined in that act who he

## Document text

Where the commission has exercised authority under the provisions of the federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011, 49 U.S.C. § 60101, et seq., and amendments thereto, to regulate gas safety in the state of Wyoming, any person or persons as defined in that act who hereafter violate any provision of that act as made applicable to jurisdictional activities within the state of Wyoming may be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for violation for each day that the violation persists. However, the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) for any related series of violations.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title37.pdf>
- Source ID: `wyoming-pipeline-safety`
- SHA-256: `cb39a8e00cdc62d2dcd0cb86776e54805bf0ae7c5f99452af6414293ea745ce5`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T11:56:58.237Z
- Exported: 2026-08-24T13:55:25.217Z
- Document slug: `wy-stat-37-2-128`

### Source metadata

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{
  "jurisdiction": "US-WY",
  "statutoryLayer": "pipeline-safety-enforcement-and-jurisdiction",
  "legalScope": "Current Wyoming PSC gas-pipeline safety provisions expressly located in PSC Rules Chapters 1 and 3, plus Wyoming Statutes 37-2-128 through 37-2-131(a). The rules adopt dated federal gas-safety requirements and add utility safety, incident, interruption, meter-location, and leak-reporting requirements.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Apply each provision only after determining Wyoming intrastate status, the operator and facility class, whether the entity is a public utility under W.S. 37-1-101(a)(vi), and the reach of W.S. 37-2-131(a). The PSC states that its delegated safety jurisdiction covers intrastate gas transmission, gas distribution, LP-gas distribution, regulated gas gathering, construction, and LNG systems, but excludes interstate gas and hazardous-liquid pipeline safety. Some Chapter 3 provisions address 'utilities' or 'natural gas utilities' and should not be generalized to every gas pipeline operator without separate jurisdiction analysis.",
  "certificationCaveat": "PHMSA program certification under 49 U.S.C. 60105 is distinct from a Wyoming Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. The former allocates gas-pipeline safety inspection and enforcement authority; the latter is state economic construction approval. PSC construction authority can reach qualifying gas and liquid pipeline projects even though the PSC expressly disclaims hazardous-liquid pipeline-safety jurisdiction. The PSC webpage's locator to Chapter 1, Section 2(a)(xxxiv)(D) is stale; the current SOS text places the relevant major-utility-facility definition at Section 3(a)(xli)(D).",
  "references": [
    {
      "citation": "49 U.S.C. 60101",
      "referenceType": "federal-statute",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section60101"
    }
  ],
  "rights": "Wyoming government source material is reproduced for legal research. The SOS site displays a copyright notice and does not grant a general reuse license. Incorporated federal and private standards are not reproduced; private ANSI, ASME, and other standards may be copyrighted. Rights review is required before redistribution beyond fair-use archival and citation purposes.",
  "rightsReviewRequired": true,
  "sectionSuffix": "128",
  "originSourceId": "wy-legislature-statutes",
  "region": "WY"
}
```